Brams Mistakes

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This site should be a log of about 2 bad moves in every game i played:

Whitedog 4k vs ShinJoseki 4k (27th november 2004)

Allthough I lost this game, I am glad I was in it. I felt I played a lot stronger. I lost because of time. But I was allready behind at that time because of the time pressure.

I have been reviewing it after the game. And to be honest It is really hard to find my mistakes. Maybe I should ask somebody stronger to take a look at it.

The first move that looks like an obvious mistake is move B59. I tenukied too fast, and right after I clicked, I saw a sequence that could have killed my group. :s (My opponent didn't, so the game continued without problems) The next one was move B105 where I defended while it wasnt actually necessary, but that was a 6seconds decision, I didn't have more time. Then move B119, this one was pretty bad too. Again an unnecessary move, But I had 8seconds/3moves left. I made some more mistakes, but it is really all a matter of time pressure. None of them are worth a diagram here.

kaitoisp 4k vs ShinJoseki 4k (19th november 2004)

An easy victory. I made some mistakes, though, and this is a very big one. If you become too greedy for sente, you can become blind.

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The situation...

The situation looked like this. Black to play ...

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The way I played.

I played it like this in the game ... And after that I left it along for a long time. Later on white invaded at A. It was very careless to leave it like that all game. Now that I look back on it, I am surprised I did.

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The way Yoda Norimoto played in Round 6 of the 29th Meijin Title versus Cho U.

He attached to the strong side instead and then he ended with the atari. A and B seem to be miai now.

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According to a joseki dictionary

According to www.joseki.com I should play like this. I should not play the tsuke of a, but play atari with 9. (Note that 4 isnt captured here yet. The net doesnt work. But if white tries to get out, then the marked stone will get in trouble.)

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Last question left about this position

What if white plays the marked stone ? This is in fact what happened. Now the cut at A is useless !

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Kobayashi Koichi vs Rin Kaiho in the title match of the 16th Meijin in the 5th game.

There are 2 options for black. He can either play B1 or E. E seems to give white the corner and huts black to the center. (White would respond to E with G) In my humble opinion 1 would be more natural for black. White will probably respond by playing 2, allthough a move at F is possible too here. Either way black is alive in the corner. Much later when white plays A, black answers B and white plays C again, Then black has to add a move to defends his corner, for example D.


swift 4k vs BramGo 5k (13th november 2004)

I was quiet happy about the opening. I got surprised by a couple of joseki I hadnt seen in ages. But all together I lost because I made 2 or 3 very careless moves in the middlegame:

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19x19 diagram

First of all , the marked stone you do not see that often. But he surprised me completely with move W1. I should have drawn back to 2 I think. I pushed at A (careless) and ended in gote. Later on I got the chance to continue with B4 to B10. So I was happy to have the cut at B.

In the middlegame I was tricked badly after an invasion I played a bit careless. :-) I resigned shortly after.


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